I do admit that it is more of a hassle now, but that coupled with the unknown regarding the permanence of this.. To each his/her own and I respect your opinion, but I personally do not feel quite as appalled as to request a refund. I do not feel that this makes my point of view cultish, just many bigger frustrations in my life than this.
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Air Suspension no longer lowers at highway speeds (FW update v5.8)
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I do admit that it is more of a hassle now, but that coupled with the unknown regarding the permanence of this.. To each his/her own and I respect your opinion, but I personally do not feel quite as appalled as to request a refund. I do not feel that this makes my point of view cultish, just many bigger frustrations in my life than this.
araxara
X-LR M3AWD, MYLR
No, the car can't be lowered manually above 45mph or below 100mph. Several people have verified this (as have I). If you press the "Low" setting again after an error is displayed, it will look like the low setting has held, but that's just a UI bug, because it is trying to display a second error while the first one is being displayed.
Odd - I never got an error message to start with. I merged with traffic (~70 MPH x ~90 sec) then hit low. The graphic changed and wheel present for the standard 10sec or so, but no message. The car reverted to standard as I slowed down on the off ramp.
No, they pushed it out to people without WiFi, as well. I was running 4.5 and got the update to 5.8 on Friday. What makes this rushed, was that (a) they pushed this out to a lot of people at once, and (b) they started pushing out on a Friday. Doing either of those things is utterly insane, unless they had something really important to fix. Tesla especially seems to be very bad about testing their software. But any company pushing out software updates knows that you start by pushing to a small set of users, and if that goes well, you expand the rollout. And you do the push at the beginning of the week, so when something goes wrong, all your engineers are standing by to deal with it. When you push on a Friday, you can count on working during the weekend.
araxara
X-LR M3AWD, MYLR
I took the car out for an extended highway drive yesterday and today. Cruised at 85mph several times, but always got an error when setting to low. If I pressed Low while an error message was displayed, the Low button would remain set, but it didn't look like the display changed to show the car had lowered. Pressing the highlighted Low button for the third time (with no message displaying) caused an error message to come up and the Standard suspension button being highlighted.
You are assuming the software engineering folks are talking to the marketing and website folks--I am not sure that is a safe assumption. For all we know, there is a "Dear Rolf, please update the website this weekend since we are rolling out 5.8" e-mail sitting in someone's inbox right now.
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Kraken
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uhhh... I've worked with a lot of military software, and I hope that tesla never stoops that low! Well have three different apps that all do the same thing but need to be used in conjunction. Further, there will almost never be a time that all three are working properly.
if everyone waits a week, we still won't know what the bugs are a week later and we would be in the same situation:tongue:
As this thread unfolds, I am reminded of the Napoleon Bonaparte quote:
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Let's see what Monday brings from our friends on Deer Creek Road.
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Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Let's see what Monday brings from our friends on Deer Creek Road.
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I stand corrected - just took the car out (in my PJs) to try to replicate what I thought I had done earlier this evening, but to no avail. On each occasion I got the error message as described and the suspension failed to adjust. I still hold on hope that this is a glitch. Certainly the feature would be made optional rather than taken away altogether. Sorry for the false info
I'm on 4.5 (thus, no wifi) and I've always taken weeks or longer to get updates; I got offered this one today. It sounds like I'm not the only one. My impression was that because 5.6's roll-out was stopped, there weren't so many folks on 5.6 that wifi could explain this roll-out speed. But it's all anecdotal, so who knows.
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Nope. Already mentioned upthread--Tesla's got a history of sometimes being...let's say...not the speediest to update their web site. So this means nothing, IMHO.
SCW-Greg
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Can you imagine the water cooler chat at TM HQ tomorrow?! About all of us here on TMC?
No doubt new scrutiny will be in place for rollouts, and notes/communication... or at least one would hope.
I wonder if this falls under Elon's "we wait to see how people react." comment...
The way to fix the communication problem is, unfortunately, to hit them in the pocket book. Each email or phone call to Ownership costs at least $15 to $25. A few times where every owner calls or writes will make them see that it makes financial sense to notify first. Now if it's a bug, it should have been obvious within a few hours after rollout and owners notified. As this is a 7x24 company, weekends shouldn't matter.
While it very well may be a mistake, experience has taught me not to place faith in Tesla's website having up to date information.
I did some measurements before and after upgrading to 5.8. The Low setting is no longer as low:
Version_____5.0_____5.8
Low_______4.46"____4.92"
Std_______5.30"____5.31"
I made 2 or 3 measurements at each setting and averaged. I figure the measurements are accurate within around 0.1".
I moved back and forth between STD and Low to confirm I got the same results.
These measurements were made on a P85+ with winter tires. I measured up to the bare aluminum of the battery tray behind the passenger front tire using calipers.
Version_____5.0_____5.8
Low_______4.46"____4.92"
Std_______5.30"____5.31"
I made 2 or 3 measurements at each setting and averaged. I figure the measurements are accurate within around 0.1".
I moved back and forth between STD and Low to confirm I got the same results.
These measurements were made on a P85+ with winter tires. I measured up to the bare aluminum of the battery tray behind the passenger front tire using calipers.
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